I am submitting this recipe for Stollen to Meeta’s Monthly Mingle, which is being hosted this month by Jungle Frog Cooking and to Twelve Loaves which is hosted by Jaime, Lora and Barb.
Today’s inspirational recipe from Lavender and Lime ♥ Stollen ♥ #LavenderAndLime Share on X
Last week I flew up to Johannesburg as my sister is visiting from Australia with my nieces. I stayed with my parents and got to spend some time with friends, as well as my mother-in-law. Before I went to have morning coffee with Marguerite, I went shopping at the Woolworths on Grayston Drive. I chose a selection of biscuits, chocolates and carrot cake and my mother-in-law and I indulged in a decadent mid morning snack. Of course, having bought so much, I left her with enough treats to last the week before she moved to Hoekwil. When my mom got home I told her that Woolworths had a special of 20% off stollen and lebkuchen. My mom is of German descent and Christmas always means lots of cookies and slices of stollen. She told me she doesn’t have a good recipe for stollen and has not made it in years. I knew there was a recipe for my bread maker and I told my mom I would make the stollen and if it was great, I would send her the recipe. You don’t need a bread maker for this recipe as you could do the kneading in a mixer, or by hand if you prefer. It was just good fortune that two of the challenges I try and do each month have stollen as the ‘to do’ recipe. I’ve now killed three birds with one stone! I placed the ingredients into the bread maker and Dave and I left to get one thing from the shop. That one thing turned into 5 and we were out of the house for over 3 hours. When we got home it was hot, and the stollen proved amazingly well. It is summer and nearly holidays and I will be making more breads to enjoy and share with you.
do you have a Christmas tradition?
Stollen
Ingredients
for the dough
- 125 mls milk
- 125 mls water
- 60 mls melted butter
- 5 mls salt
- 60 mls fructose
- 600 g bread flour
- 1 orange, zest only
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 10 mls instant dried yeast
for the filling
- 125 mls raisins
- 60 mls crimson raisins
- 60 mls dried cherries
- 40 mls dried cranberries
- 60 mls slivered almonds
- 40 mls brandy
to make the stollen
- 40 mls melted butter
- 60 mls icing sugar
Method
for the dough
- Place ingredients into the bread maker and set on dough - bread
for the filling
- Soak the dried fruit and nuts in the brandy in a covered bowl for 2 hours
to make the stollen
- Turn the dough out and flatten to a 25cm x 25cm square
- Scatter the fruit and nuts on top
- Knead to incorporate
- Roll out to a 35cm x 20cm oval
- Fold in half lengthways
- Place on a lightly greased baking tray
- Brush on the melted butter
- Cover loosely with cling film and prove for an hour
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Bake for 35 minutes
- Remove and cool on a wire rack
- When cool, dust with the icing sugar
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Tandy, the strangest thing – when I saw your stollen photo, I instantly could smell it! It looks fabulous and I’m glad it doesn’t have marzipan in it! 🙂
I love it when that happens to me! Like when I can taste your chocolates just by looking at them 🙂
Lovely post Tandy. I don’t have a bread maker but I do like making bread from scratch so I will just use the rest of the recipe (soaking fruit etc) and make it sans machine 🙂 xx
this is easy to do without the machine – I usually do that if the weather is good 🙂
Tandy this sounds lovely. I have not made this bread before and now I would like to try your easy recipe. Take care, BAM
It is so delicious I am having it for afternoon tea each day until it is finished 🙂
Looks fabulous Tandy.
🙂 Mandy
thank you Mandy 🙂
We eat panettone at Christmas (you did a recipe last year if I rememeber which seriously impressed me!) but I really like Stollen and have often thought I´d like to give it a try! Well done on yours, it looks great and so glad you got to spend time with your family.
I did a panettone post last year – well remembered! I love this more actually as it toasts well, which is a good thing as the loaf was HUGE 🙂
So lovely to be able to spend time with our mom, and spoil her a bit. 🙂 That Stollen looks really yummity. 🙂
I love spoiling people AD 🙂
I love a good stollen but unfortunately for some reason mine haven’t been what I want them to be so I am still working on making the perfect one. This does look pretty good so maybe I should try your recipe. Thanks for taking part in the Monthly Mingle this month!
I hope you try it and that you find it as good as I did Simone 🙂
Beautiful Stollen Tandy!
thank you Sarah 🙂
Oh, yum. I’ve seen stollen in the shops and never considered making it! After those photographs I must try…
It is remarkably easy and so tasty 🙂
Hope you had fun my friend 🙂
And stollen is one of the best Christmas treats!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I had an amazing time indeed Uru 🙂
Oh Tandy, I like this treat…but never made it…since we grew up in Brazil…our tradition asks for panettone…
Have a great week!
It is so interesting that you have the same traditional bread as Italy 🙂
Brandy + Fruit? This is definitely a winner =)
thank you Squishy 🙂
Thanks so much for this recipe, Tandy. I have a bread maker and have made every bread recipe from the recipe book that came with it so I’ll give this one a go 🙂
I am on my second book of recipes Hope 🙂
One of my favorite holiday treats. This sounds like an easy recipe for your mom.
it was very simple Karen 🙂
I adore stollen ever since having it fresh overseas! The ones that we get here are packaged and not so fresh but a fresh one is a thing of beauty indeed!
That is why I love making my own breads 🙂
Great photo!
thanks Tok 🙂
I bake my stollen also usually w/out the marzipan because my kids won’t enjoy it. Your stollen is beautiful, Tandy. Perfect addition to this month’s Boozy #TwelveLoaves:)
thank you Lora 🙂
How tasty looking!
thank you yummychunklet 🙂
hi Tandy!! Wow! You’ve been busy with family! That’s always nice! haha.. Your mum must be happy that you can make your own stollen! Delicious! 🙂
Thanks for the visit Sammie! The stollen was very delicious. Maybe I’ll make her some when I visit next 🙂
Your stollen looks great. I published a vegan version, my way, yesterday! Check it out! Yours looks wonderfulç
I shall pop in to look when I get the internet back – thanks Sophie 🙂
This looks great, I love stollen and must try to make my own one day!
Thank you so much Jayne 🙂
I am thrilled to have found this recipe, Tandy. I have been looking for a Stollen recipe for Christmas this year.
Please let me know how it works out. I might make it again this year if I have time 🙂